• Rethinking the school day

    Baltimore is a playful, vibrant place.  You need go no further than the parking lot of M&T Bank Stadium to watch adults chasing each other around, football in hand, before and after a Ravens game.  If you stroll through Federal Hill, Patterson Park or Canton on any given evening, you will almost certainly run into […]

  • It’s a right, not a privilege

    Last week I participated in a discussion about the Supreme Court’s decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board with Ron Christie, a former special assistant to George W. Bush.  In that case, the Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, Indiana’s voter I.D. law.  The venue was NPR’s News & Notes, a public affairs program hosted by […]

  • Everyday heroes

    Note: In honor of National Foster Care Month this May, Shantel Randolph, this week’s blogger and 2007 Baltimore Community Fellow, is organizing a picnic for more than 200 foster care youth in the Baltimore area. To read more about her May 10 event, click here. Youth in the foster care system live in a world […]